MC-127862 doesn't really describe my issue, as I've never had a locked 'ctrl' button issue before, only an issue where I hold ctrl and then the key combination action I choose to do, for example, ctrl+v, results in the copied string being pasted with an extra 'v' at the end, or ctrl+a resulting in the entire text field to be replaced by 'a'. MC-133452 describes my issue perfectly, but hasn't yet been fixed for my window manager of choice.
that's weird, maybe it's because I have it running on pop!_ os, but I'm not sure. I didn't have this issue before in pop shell, maybe it's because pop!_ os is designed for pop shell and nothing else. If I have time, I might try seeing if a different distribution running dwm has this same problem.